Almost Halfway

 

The 100 Day Project is an ambitious journey. Each year I swear I won't do it again. This is at least my fourth year participating and I really believe I have found the way to complete the process. Scrapbook it. And combine it with whatever else is going on. In Creative Crafty Friends we are working on daily journaling, so I combined the two. And sometimes I fall behind - like now - then I have to play catchup. These pages are for days 36 and 37 of the project. I am working in a Harmony hot pressed watercolor journal from Hahnemühle and I love that because it can take a bunch of water! I can use crazy color! Like these Dylusions Ink Sprays. I haven't worked with them in a long time. I used three colors for this page: lemon zest, fresh lime and bubblegum pink. My favorites! If you click on the picture you can see it enlarged. I was able to include some of the Frankles' drawing on this page. So exciting! 

Days 38 and 39. I received a package from Jet Pens in the mail this week - some birthday fun for the Frankles. On the receipt was this cute comic strip. And it made me laugh! And Mark, too! Cause yeah, I have a pen or two. Hahahahaha! That quote block is a piece of my art that I added the words to in Photoshop. I saw it on Tracy's page and wanted to preserve the saying. The paper for all my tiles is Bristol from Hahnemühle. And the big news with this spread is I got my first covid vaccination. 

Days 40 and 41. Look! I used red! All the color in the background is bits of gelli prints made with my gel printing plate from Gelli Arts. And one of them was mostly red! Hahahahaha! I hate red! But it looks good here.

Last one for today - Day 42! I just realized I didn't use day 43 on this page. Oops! That would be why there is so much space! Hahahaha! I used another gel print - or monoprint - just cut it in half and used it in two different areas. Want to see?

Here is my layout before I started adhering elements. Sorry the photo is dark - I took it at nighttime in a poorly lit room. Another oops! The tangled parts are pieces of two different pages I made for a coloring book years ago. I knew I was going to be using one large element so I didn't worry about covering the entire page. 

Then I added my two main elements. The bunny is a piece of art by Mindy Lacefield. I love her work! And the tile is totally turned on its side. I didn't notice till it was too late. Put down with scor tape and there is no way that will lift off so I can turn it. And that would be a third oops! Oh well. It's all good. 

And to finish off my page I added the quote, a little writing, credit to Mindy for the awesome bunny, and some fun pen work with my dot pens. That's it. 

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Harmony Hot Pressed Watercolor from Hahnemühle can be purchased here. 

Bristol from Hahnemühle can be purchased here. 

Gel printing plates from Gelli Arts can be purchased here.